Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Another Historic Day in the Battle to Stop the Tar Sands

Today people slowed the beast again but this time we did it at the
source.

After a string of pipeline victories and over a decade of
campaigning on at least three different continents, the Alberta
government has finally put
a limit to the tar sands. Today they announced they will cap its
expansion and limit the tar sands monster to 100 megatons a year
(equivalent to what projects already operating and those currently
under construction would produce).

Aerial
view of seismic lines and a tar sands mine in the Boreal Forest north
of Fort McMurray, northern Alberta. Photo credit: Greenpeace

As momentous an occasion as it is when an oil jurisdiction
actually puts limits on growth, 100 million tons of carbon a year at
a time when science is demanding bold reductions is still far too
much. While historic, the government’s cap needs to be viewed as a
ceiling rather then a floor and a ceiling that we will need to work
like crazy to ratchet down until it meets the science. MORE

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Arthur C. Pillsbury early understood the problems facing his generation. His solution applied edge technologies, film and an expanded understanding of the living processes of the natural world, to awaken people to the need to respect the integrity of the natural world.

His work changed the world, but remains to be finished by those of us now living.